"That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener."

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Source : Nancy Farmer (1994). “The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm: A Novel”, p.103, Scholastic Inc.

Nancy Farmer

#Stories Quotes #Kind Quotes

“I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.”
“Our lives teach us who we are.”
“Do yourself a favor; donâ€™t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.”
“I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.”
“Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.”
“Going from college to being on national TV almost fresh outta school, it happened really fast.”
“You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that”
“If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.”

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